How do some people get to be so clever at covering up their own misdeeds by denouncing other people? So many of the rest of us are utter and complete failures at this. Where does their genius come from?
The latest foray into the game of covering up unkind deeds is the denunciation that Republicans roared at MoveOn.Org, an internet-based liberal political group, for making a pun out of General David Petraeus’s name. In a full-page ad in the New York Times, MoveOn wrote: Petraeus=Betray Us after the general reported that the invasion and recent surge in Iraq are successes and that opponents of the invasion are radical thugs with rings in their noses.
The Republican roar shifted attention away from the epic tragedy of Iraq and Petraeus’s contestable claims. They scapegoated MoveOn without taking one second to reflect upon any truth that is contained in their objections.
Win at any costs, say these denouncers. The costs are the truth, American and Iraqi lives, the economic disaster that the invasion is causing in the US and internationally, and the loss of American world leadership, to name a few. Do these Republicans care? No.
The good news for MoveOn is their own surge in fund-raising. In one day, they received a half a million in donations, the largest single donation in the few years of their existence.
This upside doesn’t really matter, though. What matters is the mindless fury of a few who do not have the executive skills to see that the consequences of their actions threaten the foundations of the US democracy. They do not see the terrible things they do in the name of winning.
Why can’t those who understand democracy and have good executive skills be as good at getting their own way as these denouncers who lie to themselves and to others?
The answer is in the question. Reasonable people understand democracy and think about the consequences of their actions. They have good executive skills. They have have consciences.
How are we ever going to defuse the influences of denouncers? They are mindless roarers.
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